Minuscule 565
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New Testament manuscript |
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| Name | Empress Theodora's Codex |
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| Text | Gospels † |
| Date | 9th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Russian National Library |
| Size | 17.6 cm by 19.2 cm |
| Type | Caesarean text-type |
| Category | III |
| Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 565 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 93 (Soden), also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on purple parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. It was labelled by Scrivener as 473. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.
The codex is one of only two known purple minuscules (minuscule 1143 is the other) written with gold ink. It contains the text of the four Gospels on 405 purple parchment leaves (17.6 by 19.2 cm) lacunae (Matthew 20:18-26, 21:45-22:9, Luke 10:36-11:2, 18:25-37, 20:24-26, 11:26-48, 13:2-23, John 17:1-12). The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose number are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages (in silver uncials). There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons).
It contains the Eusebian tables (added by later hand), tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before every Gospel. It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon.
The manuscript is similar to Beratinus 2.
The Greek text of the codex, has been understood as a representative of the so-called Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. In Mark this manuscript is closely aligned to Codex Koridethi. According to Aland the quality of the text is higher in Gospel of Mark, and lower in Matthew and Luke. In John manuscript 565 is a member of Family 1.
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